statement of responsibility: by B.S. Buckley,

Title transcribed from caption on p. [1]

Manuscript handwritten in ink on faintly-lined paper in an account ledger

From the Loda Township Library (Illinois), which apparently acquired this diary in the 1890s from a descendant of Benjamin S. Buckley, who had relocated to Illinois from California after his adventures in the gold fields. Transferred as a gift to the Dibner Library in 2010

Diary written by Benjamin S. Buckley on a voyage from Boston to San Francisco via Cape Horn, as a passenger on the ship Capitol (dates of voyage: 23 Jan. 1849-20 July 1849), headed for the gold fields of California. The volume also contains some pages with accounting details for Buckley's subsequent cattle-trading business (apparently in Illinois) and other miscellaneous information, dating from as late as 1863

SCDIRB copy 39088015259732 has some torn pages with a few crude repairs

SCDIRB copy has the original half-leather binding with marbled paper boards

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